When George Vinible Thompkins was born on 10 July 1922, in Lake View, Dillon, South Carolina, United States, his father, Lonnie Benjamin Thompkins Jr, was 23 and his mother, Mary Belle Hardee, was 28. He married Olenda Robinson in 1942, in Brunswick, North Carolina, United States. He lived in Shallotte, Brunswick, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Shallotte Township, Brunswick, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 18 February 1992, in Yucca Valley, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Sharon United Methodist Church Cemetery, Holden Beach, Brunswick, North Carolina, United States.